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🚨 BREAKING: JPMorgan tests Tesla Robotaxi in Austin! $TSLA
⚡️ Jose Asumendi tested it for a day, calls it “solid” & “safe”
⚡️ Traffic & accident-free data key for Tesla’s robotaxi future
⚡️ Could boost pricing power for new car sales
Tesla Robotaxi: A New Era Begins
I’ve (very fortunately) been part of multiple robotaxi launches. But this one is different and feels much more profound. It’s a paradigm shift. It’s the GPT moment for real-world autonomy.
Tesla’s robotaxi runs vision-only -- no lidar, no radar, no HD maps. Just video in, actions out. A single large model trained end-to-end. Many experts in autonomy doubted this could ever reach L4. Some still do. But from 10/10 We, Robot to factory driverless ops, and now a live service in Austin, Tesla keeps proving them wrong.
What made this possible isn’t more sensors or more complex engineering, but a different philosophy. We bet on end-to-end learning, powered by massive data and fleet-scale reinforcement. This is the Bitter Lesson for physical-world AI:
Hand-coded rules, curated maps, and engineered pipelines don’t scale. Data and compute do.
Now, let the scaling begin.
@heydave7 The automakers keep being told that this isn’t real or that just buying some hardware from Nvidia will solve it.
As Tesla robotaxis become widespread and their other solutions don’t work, they will naturally turn to us.